<p>Yeah, it's weird... I remember as a child, always recognizing the name Cornell as one of those crazy elite colleges... I had never heard of Columbia, Penn, Brown, (and Dartmouth?) until I reached high school.
I think people tend to underestimate Cornell.</p>
<p>lol youre not it as if it isnt a crazy elite college...and i hate how mediocre students tend to think that cornell is the lowest of the lowest of the top schools and apply there just because they think they haev a chance...kids that are applying to like umaryland,state u's...and other stuf like that...cornell should be more selective i think if kids with the stats ive seen are applying there</p>
<p>edit: the moment i went to teh chances thread i found an exact example</p>
<p>lol, Alexandre, I really like your rankings.</p>
<p>Read this thread in Penn's forum:</p>
<p>"PENN
-sees Princeton as its rival
-makes fun of Cornell not because of any perceived rivalry because it sucks, and everyone makes fun of Cornell.</p>
<p>PRINCETON
-sees Penn as its basketball rival, looks down condescendingly on Penn in every other matter
-fancies itself on equal footing with Harvard and Yale, is not</p>
<p>HARVARD
-mostly so full of themselves they consider themselves peerless
-kind of sees Yale as its rival
-sees Princeton as annoying third-wheel</p>
<p>YALE
-obsessively sees Harvard as its rival
-sees Princeton as "Harvard sucks and Princeton doesn't matter"</p>
<p>CORNELL
-4 out of 5 students can correctly spell their own names</p>
<p>Some wise Princeton people realize that locking horns with Penn would be much better than trying to wedge in between Harvard and Yale (particularly if they ever want a football phenomenon like "The Game" between Harvard and Yale). But the most just want to continue looking down on Penn, popping collars in eating clubs and simmering in anti-semitism.</p>
<p>Columbia would make a good rival as they share Penn's position of being in a sizable American city, unlike Princeton. But they suck at sports.</p>
<p>SO in a nutshell:
-hate princeton because they are your one-sided rivalry
-mock cornell because it sucks
-hate harvard because everyone hates harvard"</p>
<p>This one is the best:</p>
<p>"CORNELL
-4 out of 5 students can correctly spell their own names"</p>
<p>Why do they mock Cornell students? My scores and stats are better than a lot of kids who got into Penn. This is sad.</p>
<p>lol that's a joke. Wharton is one of the main reasons they are ranked so high. They used to be pretttty low in the rankings. Just ignore...</p>
<p>When I tell my fellow NYU students I want to transfer to Cornell, they say things like, "Why? Cornell is the reject of the Ivy League and you will be made fun of to no end," and some who were admitted to Cornell as freshman but chose to come to NYU say, "I didn't want to go to a reject school." </p>
<p>It's kind of funny because academically, Cornell owns NYU in basically every area of study (few exceptions - mostly things like philosophy, arts, drama, business, economics) and the teaching quality and facilities at Cornell are first-rate. I bet the people who got in and didn't go did so because they knew they wouldn't be able to handle Cornell's rigorous academics.</p>
<p>Bottom line - NYU is overrated and Cornell rules...I'm sick of the pompous environment here and hope I get into Cornell as a transfer.</p>
<p>actually, NYU is perhaps the most represented school at Cornell for transfers. I know at least 5-6 kids from NYU and I see them all the time at transfer day for ILR. </p>
<p>If you ask me, people were sour because they didn't get in. There's 19,000 every year that don't make it, odds are many end up at places like NYU. Also, for what it's worth, you will not be made fun of to no end.</p>
<p>People who make fun of Cornell are just losers. I don't think anyone could honestly say it isn't an overall phenomenal school. Most of those people are probably Cornell rejects. Even if one considered Cornell the worst of the Ivies (which domestic and global rankings show that it isn't... I think it's better than Brown, Dartmouth, and Penn) I'd rather attend the worst of the best, than the best of the worst (say, SUNY Binghamton, the best of the SUNYs). People are just haters.</p>
<p>there's an overall rankings, Dartmouth is way lower than Cornell, but dont know why people think Cornell is the worst among Ivies..</p>
<p>those ivy league jokes are just for fun guys... we can all write our name's correctly haha...</p>
<p>Ungst, Michigan and Cornell are peers in Engineering. I don't think one has the edge over the other in Engineering.</p>
<p>Names.</p>
<p>This is unreal--how are we ever going to get legitimacy?</p>
<p>Most of the people who bash Cornell don't really know anything about it. They just repeat something they heard somewhere. In my opinion, the more that kids have the need to bash another school means they aren't secure about their own choice.</p>
<p>“mock Cornell because it sucks”…that’s a very pathetic and uncivilized remark, cuz who ever adheres to it will not have any reasons to support their point…and spelling their names…that actually made me laugh lol.</p>
<p>It's just like how Harvard and Yale mock eachother. Penn and Cornell are around the same in some areas and around the same spot in the Ivy rankings so people just do it to make themselves feel better.</p>
<p>it used to be easier to get into Penn, than into Cornell. so one's opinion on the matter often correlates with age. overall, Cornell is currently the easiest ivy to get into. as a whole, it's also the lowest ivy in the 2004 revealed preference ranking. this ranking tries to measure prestige, i.e. which schools students would choose the most if they were admitted to them all, and all other things were equal (financial aid, quality of life, etc.) </p>
<p>in terms of faculty and research though, cornell is ranked much higher. so is UC San Diego, btw, for the guy who was making fun of them.</p>
<p>Revealed preference study is very flawed in terms of making broad conclusions. It was more a study in methodology than a pursuit of fact finding.</p>
<p>I always question the preference rankings, as they are based on high school seniors' choices and perhaps their parent's choices, but not necessarily on how the graduating seniors of the schools are perceived by graduate schools and hiring employers. Furthermore, prestige in this context is self-perpetuating.</p>
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few exceptions - mostly things like philosophy, arts, drama, business, economics
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<p>That's so funny since Econ-Math and Philosophy are my majors.</p>
<p>And I would also put NYU's Math program above that of Cornell. </p>
<p>And Law.</p>
<p>I don't go to NYU, but I feel it doesn't quite get enough credit.</p>
<p>But I'm applying to both NYU and Cornell either way.</p>
<p>cornell is not the easiest ivy to get into. the only reason its acceptance rates seem higher than the other ivies is b/c cornell's student body is at least 3 times larger than the next largest ivy.</p>